linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG

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Date:	Mon, 7 Feb 2011 13:09:51 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-embedded@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PM: Hide CONFIG_PM from users

On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 01:48:46PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com> wrote:

> > Since having the configuration option requires non-zero effort to
> > maintain, with ifdefery in most drivers, but it is used with vanishing
> > rarity it is simpler to just remove the option.

> Well, either make it dependent on CONFIG_EXPERT or remove the option altogether.

The goal is the latter but when I saw the IA64 emulator there I didn't
want to make it instabuggy.  The current patch means we get the UI
effect of the change (especially in terms of avoiding it turning up in
randconfigs or whatever).
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